Thanks britley ritz for that. Sorry, our lights are a little bright right there. Its almost like being outside, very bright. Im fredricka whitfield, good to see you. We begin this hour with the overseas kidnapping of an american nurse and her child. Alex was reportedly abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Ministry in haiti. The two were taken from the organizations campus near portauprince. She is married to the director of the christian humanitarian aid group. Pa Paula Hancock is following the story for us. Reporter the charity did confirm the abduction and the details are quite disturbing. Remember, this was a nurse from New Hampshire, working for the charity. She was abducted along with her child and this was actually on what they call is the campus of this charity close to p portauprince. They said shes a deeply passionate person who considers haiti as her home and her passion. She works tirelessly to bring relief as she loves to serve the people of haiti in t
breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
disapprove of biden on nearly every key economic concern. 37% approve of his handling of the economic recovery and has worse numbers on issues like gas prices and inflation. nearly 80% of americans say the economy is in extremely or very important factor in how they will vote. the media trying to warn democrats of what s to come. president biden is a serious drag on democratic candidates nationwide. he is badly underwater on all the top issues including the big ones. inflation, gas prices. less than 30% approval rating on the issues we are told by voters are dominating their state of mind. greg: gas prices hit a staggering record high at $4.86 a gallon, doubling since biden s presidency began. the administration is having no problem passing the blame on their economic woes. the price of gasoline is not set by a dial in the oval office and when an oil company is deciding our by our how much to charge you for a gallon of gas, they are not calling the administration to ask